Finding True Peace: Jesus as Our Way Home

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "If I find in myself desires, which nothing in this world can satisfy. The only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. So here's Lewis's argument. If money and power and success, success and sex, and all, I just mixed those two. Success is not a real word. Okay. If all of that does not provide our heart, we're not going to be successful. We're not going to be successful. We're not going to be well. What, what was the question? What was the question? What did we learn? We're with peace, with peace, with peace and peace and peace and peace, with maybe we were designed for something greater than those things." [13:27] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Jesus is the only savior from the slavery to sin and death. So let me try to unpack this. The great chasm between you and home, between you and rest, between you and soul-level communion with your creator is not more money, not a better job, not another town, not more success, not a better relationship, not a better... The great chasm that robs you from home is sin and death. That's what separated us out." [20:11] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "The only standard of righteousness we have that is acceptable to God is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Now, let me tell you why that's such good news, because Jesus, in his death, life, death, and resurrection, imputes that righteousness to those who would repent of their sins and believe upon his name, which means that the perfection of Christ is granted to me so that when God sees me in Christ, he sees the perfect obedience of Christ." [24:31] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Jesus is saying here that the deliverance he's bringing is not political or social, but it's physical and spiritual life. See, as Christians, we aren't to go, okay, I'm saved, and I'm just waiting for heaven. That's not what we've been saved into. If that was God's ultimate plan, then when we got saved, we'd just get sucked out of here, right? If God's touchdown is you in heaven, then you'd get saved, and you'd be gone, but that's not, first of all, that'd be freaky. Secondly, that's not what he's after, right?" [25:48] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "So when Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, this is not, and no man comes to the Father, but my man, this is not a pronouncement of judgment on over half the world. This is an invitation to half the world to come home. Think about it. If you're stuck in this, if you're stuck in a type of I've gotta earn, I've gotta make it right, I've gotta work my way there, and Jesus says, no, no, no, that's not the way. This is the way. That's not judgment. That's an invitation home. It's not cruel. It's loving. It's not bigoted. It's gracious. This way home." [45:32] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "And what I've learned about myself is regardless of where I am, regardless of the scenery or, um, even who's there, I, I start, after a certain period of time, I start to want to be home. Um, right. And, and what I realized when I got home from that trip is that I'm Hector. Like I got back to my house, my kids were like, I want some juice, make me an omelet. Where's the oatmeal? There's a mass. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm Hector. Here's your juice, Audrey. You know, it's this, you know, I'm like, wow, I do live in a place like that. I'm just Hector." [07:02] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "And, and my friend began to share why he was moving back and, and what he had learned. And here's, uh, my friend moved to LA, not to be on the silver screen, but, uh, because he got a promotion, he got more money, he got more power, he got more, right. And, and he took it. We encouraged him not to, Hey, don't do it. Stay. I think it's going to be better for you in the long, if you stay, but the allure of money and power and women is powerful. Amen. You said, amen, or you are a liar, right? That allure more money, more power. It, it called to him and he went, and it wasn't long after he got there where he just did what he's always done. He just succeeded. He's just always done it. No matter where he's been, he takes very good care of himself. He he's a very hard worker and, and he did well. And yet something began to gnaw on him." [12:04] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "And so now, he's saying, in the space between, while you're still here, I am the life, so there's two ways to think about that. I want to unpack both. There's the physical way, and there's the spiritual way. I've said before, I always love it when science catches, up to the Bible. I just always enjoy that when all of a sudden, science starts writing about things. You're like, duh. Gosh, that's Genesis five. I mean, how can you, you're just now catching it. When commentators come out, we've just learned that taking one day off a week and just really resting and unplugging is really good for the human condition. Huh. Read that somewhere. Read that somewhere." [27:11] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "So if you've ever wondered why I can stand up here and go, the first seven years of my marriage were a nightmare, and if you thought to yourself, oh my gosh, he said that. Pastors aren't supposed, pastors are supposed to have amazing marriages. Well, mine wasn't for seven years. It's been incredible for the last eight, but the first seven were very, very difficult. If you've ever wondered how I can talk about, man, I struggle with that. I doubt that. You know what? Because it's not my righteousness I'm trying to project to you. My righteousness is inadequate for you to get you home, but the righteousness of Christ gets us both there. So I don't need to be a hero to anyone. We've got one. His name is Jesus, and he frees us up from having to project that we're all together when we know we're not." [29:53] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "So let me lay this before you. Some of you are in here and you're prodigals, man. You grew up in church. Mom and Daddy used to dress you up in uncomfortable clothes and drag you here, drag you down. you to church, stick you in Sunday school. You don't want to be here. And maybe at a youth camp or something like that, you're like, yeah, and in a fit of emotion, you gave your life to the Lord, and then something happened and you ran. Listen, this sermon series has been planned for months. It's not ironic that you're here today. It's sovereign. It's your father bidding you to come home and that the paddle's not waiting for you. And if you find in yourself a restlessness, a weariness of yourself, an exhaustion from kind of fronting that you're all together and so well put together and so successful and so confident, if you're finally tired enough of that, I just want to lay before you God's invitation to come home. A better version of you will not solve that angst in your soul. More religious activity will not solve that angst in your soul. Moralistic deism will not solve that angst in your soul. Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one gets home without him. That's not arrogant. It's gracious." [51:48] (81 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)